What is Medical Technology?

Medical technology is both a challenging and rewarding career. Medical technologists play a key role in the modern laboratory. By performing scores of laboratory procedures in areas such as clinical chemistry, microbiology, hematology, serology and urinalysis, they help a physician to identify a patient's disease and evaluate effective treatment.

The profession requires a desire to serve mankind coupled with a willingness to work quietly behind the scenes. Examination and tests must be precise. Work in a medical laboratory is accomplished through the use of a wide array of intricate precision equipment:

• microscopes
• automatic analyzers
• electronic counters
• spectrophotometers
• other sophisticated laboratory equipment

Sometimes results are factual, definite and complete, but often results pose other questions, or serve as hyphens between the questions and answers of medical research.